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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
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All right. The Dilbert comic will be published as soon as I'm done with the show today. Had a little hiccup and it was a file problem, but it's fixed. And you will be delighted at the current topic in Dilbert. That's all I can tell you. You'll just be delighted. Well, let's talk about the news. The jet crash with the helicopter in D.C. ?
Chapter 2: What happened in the recent helicopter crash in D.C.?
is creating a massive fog of war as in what the heck is going on and can we trust the news and who's lying and what's what? So we'll give you a few of the things we know. There's some new video angles which would show to a non-pilot such as myself, it would look like it was an easily avoidable problem because when you see the video, it looks like the helicopter is heading straight for the airplane
had to be aware of it. You know, seems like the visibility was good and was also flying hundreds of feet higher than allowed with an instructor on board. How do you fly in illegal space in a crowded area, in illegal space? It wasn't legal to be where it was. How do you do that with an instructor on board in the context of instructions? So we got questions.
It may be that we have lots of things wrong. Now, countering the narrative that it was easy to see, which kind of suggests that there was some intentionality there, that's not proven. But I saw another expert saying that if you think it's easy to spot airplanes coming toward you, it's harder than you think.
And it depends on whether you're seeing the landing lights are fitting in with the city lights, the direction they're going, whether or not there's any lateral movement. So apparently, there are situations in which if you're looking at it from a distance, as we are, you'd say to yourself, how could you not see that? You're heading right for it for, I don't know, five seconds in a row.
Five seconds is a pretty long time to not react, right? But if you were in the pilot seat, and especially if you were testing out some night vision goggles, the night vision goggles will interfere with your peripheral vision a little bit. And there's just a ton of things going on at that particular airport. And it was a training flight.
So if you don't have the most trained person for a night flight in that area, And there's a lot going on, and it might be just a coincidence of how the lights from the vehicles, not the vehicles, the aircraft lined up. It's possible it was nothing but a mistake.
But even Trump is having trouble believing that you could be flying hundreds of feet above the altitude that's legal and allowed when you're an extreme rule-following entity. I would think that a military aircraft in the civilian space would be not just a rule follower, but an extreme rule follower. Am I wrong? I can't imagine anybody being more extreme about following every rule.
And the altitude rule isn't like every rule. That's really, really important. The where are you? You can't get the where are you wrong. That's the most important thing. Where are you in relationship to the other planes? So there's certainly some question about the intention of the pilot. There's questions about how could you possibly be doing something so out of the norm in terms of the altitude.
And then there's talk about Trump, of course, mentioned DEI. And he also mentioned that the helicopter was not where it belonged. It was too high. And he said, not too complicated to understand, is it? Well, he's right about one thing.
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Chapter 3: How does Trump relate to the helicopter crash investigation?
But if you're not including one of the most obvious baseline causes of any kind of breakdown of any kind of system in the United States, well, I don't think you're being honest. You're not being honest at all. Now, let me be clear. I am currently, right now as I speak, politicizing the tragedy while it's too soon.
Does that make me better or worse than the Democrats who are politicizing the tragedy by saying that Trump is politicizing the tragedy? No, we're all equal. We're all equal. We all politicize the strategy or the tragedy. The only thing I'll say in my defense is I don't think I'm better than you. I don't think I'm better than the Democrats. I don't think I'm better than Trump.
It's just not in my mind. It's not a contest. Did David Axelrod, one of the complainers about the complaining, does he really not think that he's part of the problem in politicizing it? Of course he knows he's politicizing it. So it's just so dumb to when Democrats come out with this. Axelrod said Trump's craven remarks. So let me think. Have the Democrats learned nothing?
Have they learned nothing? Because didn't they learn all of this last year that if the only thing you have is insults, he's a racist, he's a dummy, he's craven, he's politicizing. If that's all you have, Did you not learn that that's not enough? And that it doesn't work? And that maybe you need popular policies for once? Maybe you should try that common sense thing that's doing so well? Maybe.
Anyway, Trump had a little interaction with CNN's Caitlin Collins on the question about the air disaster. And So Caitlin Collins pressed Trump about, quote, blaming Democrats and DEI for the air crash. And so Collins says, quote, don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now? And Trump says, don't think so at all.
And he said, I don't think the names of the people, you mean the names of the people that are on the plane, you think that's going to make a difference? Trump says, you think that's going to make a difference? I don't know how it would make a difference, but it gets better. Then Caitlin Collins said, does it comfort their family to hear you blaming DEI policies? Here was Trump's answer.
I think that's not a very smart question. There you go. That is how you handle a not smart question. You got to go after the questions. And you probably heard some of you, if you watched The Five yesterday, you saw Greg Gutfeld talking about a good way to answer these dumb questions, these stupid gotcha questions, is ask a better question. This is Trump's version of ask a better question.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of DEI policies on aviation safety?
I think that's not a very smart question. I love that. I love that. Oh, don't you think you're being political? That's not a very smart question. Next question. Very, very good technique to criticize the question. And not answer it, by the way. I don't think the not smart questions deserve answers.
I think you should say, in the interest of everybody's time, could you ask a question that's sort of on point? And then just run out their time. So you might see some of the confirmation people doing that because it's really good. Kash Patel did a version of that. He did a version of it by asking for clarification on some rules.
And I think what he was doing is essentially calling attention to the fact that the questions were ridiculous. So I like that. Let's burn up all their time telling them that their questions are ridiculous because that's the truth. I mean, that's far more on point and useful than simply trying to answer an unanswerable gotcha question.
Anyway, so do you think that the Democrats have learned anything about their approach that basically is just yelling at people and calling them names? Well, according to End Wokeness,
There was a recent event, looked like an MSNBC-hosted event, in which the candidates for the DNC chairmanship, so that would be the head of the Democratic Party, at least organizationally head, and every single candidate, I think there were maybe 10 of them or so on stage, every one of them raised their hand when asked if they thought that racism and misogyny
were partly to blame for Kamala Harris losing. And they're all like, oh yeah, oh yeah, it was the racism and the misogyny. Yep, that's why Kamala Harris lost. Now, think about this. These are the people who are running to be the guiding strategic heads of the party. And every one of them thinks that the problem, the reason that Kamala Harris lost was racism and misogyny. They're not even close.
Now, I'm not saying that racism and misogyny don't exist. I'm saying that if she'd been qualified, she would have already be president like Obama. No matter what you want to say about Obama, politically, he's gifted, right? So if you're good, like Trump is, Trump is politically gifted. Bill Clinton was politically gifted.
We keep watching the politically gifted people win no matter what else they got going for them. Trump could be a felon but politically gifted, so he's your president. Obama could be the worst person in the world but politically gifted, he's your president. Kamala Harris could have done everything wrong as long as she was politically gifted, as in could talk in public.
The female thing and the minority thing, were absolutely an advantage. I mean, it's the one thing that gets people to cross over to the other party more than anything. I mean, Obama proved that by winning nearly all the black vote. So yeah, the fact that Kamala Harris couldn't turn her gender and her ethnicity into a plus shows the weakest political gifts we've seen in a long time.
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Chapter 5: Why is Tulsi Gabbard under scrutiny during her confirmation process?
If you know who the players are, and specifically how much they're getting paid by each industry, well, then you might know everything. I think it's really that simple. I guess Canada and Mexico might face 25% tariffs by Saturday because of their lack of keeping the borders closed. And Trump is even thinking of a 10% tariff
Tariff on additional tariff on China because of their failure to do the fentanyl thing. Now, you know I have a personal connection to the fentanyl thing because my stepson died of an overdose in 2018. And so I'm not objective about this topic. I'm going to just be as honest as I can. I cannot find objectivity on this particular topic. I try pretty hard on the other stuff.
But I'm just going to surrender to this one. I'm not objective on this question. So when I hear that Trump is monetizing fentanyl overdoses with a 10% tariff, I say to myself, like, I get why you're trying to put pressure on China, and I appreciate it. I get that. But it just feels like monetizing the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Now, monetize toward the national debt, I guess.
But I don't know. It's creepy, but I understand it. I understand it. It is pressure. I've told you how I would handle it. I would handle it through embarrassment. I would do something like closing the embassy. And I would say, look, if you're not going to take care of the fentanyl problem right away, we can't really have a normal relationship with you.
And I think that's what we've done wrong up to this point. We've acted like we have... It's like some kind of normal relationship. But, oh, we have this one problem. Some details not working out in this one problem, fentanyl. No, fentanyl is not like the other problems. If you're intentionally part of the killing of 100,000 Americans a year, close the embassy.
I want every country to know that China... essentially are murderers and you can't have a normal relationship with them. Now, closing it might cause too many problems for American companies operating over there. And of course, there would be immediate reciprocity, et cetera. But that's the fight I wouldn't mind.
I wouldn't mind the fight where we're just going to embarrass their management as murderers and just say, look, that's what you have to deal with. And I would also tell American companies that they just can't do business over there anymore. They just can't do it. Now, the existing businesses, I wouldn't stop them because there's too much invested over there.
But we just have to stop treating China like it's some normal country when it's killing 100,000 people a year with the help of the cartels. That's not normal. That's not normal. So I'm not happy treating it that way. I saw a great moment where Thomas Massey was teaching Congress how inflation works, and he dunked on Jamie Raskin in a way that was so, I don't know how to say it, perfect?
It was perfect, but it's how a smart person dunks on a dumb person. So let me tell you the situation. You can characterize it yourself. So Massey's doing a public display where he's got a glass of tea and he adds some regular water to it. And he says, here you can see that if I added water to it, it diluted the tea. He said that printing money is just like that.
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Chapter 6: What does Scott Adams think about Bernie Sanders' credibility?
And he shows Y Combinator's document of what they're looking for, and it does look like they want startups that can greatly reduce employment by adding AI to companies. Now, on one hand, that sounds really dangerous to employment and the future of the country. On the other hand, it's the only way that you can survive.
You have to cannibalize your existing industry as hard as you can or you become Europe, right? So as dangerous as it sounds for at least most storied incubator of startups, as dangerous as it sounds that they're targeting jobs and they're pretty direct about it, it's the only way to survive. There's no second way to do this. If you say we're going to keep the jobs...
even if the technology would allow us to get rid of them, that's a death trap. You don't survive that. You end up being overtaken by whoever is not going to do what you just said you'd do, which is protect the jobs over the growth and evolution of the industry. So you have to do it. But here are some things that jump out at me. I don't know if the real world is going to give them what they need.
So I'm going to put the Dilbert filter on Y Combinator. And it seems to me that at the moment, you're always going to need one full-time staff member to manage the AI that replaced one full-time staff member. Am I wrong? You're going to need one full-time AI person to replace anything. Because I've thought about doing it for my own operation.
There's a whole bunch of stuff I do that, in theory, AI could do. But it would require a constant monitoring and tweaking and checking. It would require me to hire somebody to sit and watch the AI to make sure it was working and to continually change it and upgrade it. Now, that's just one person. That's just my operation. But I don't see a way to reduce anything.
I do see maybe some awesome things I could add to my content or add to making the Dilbert comics more easily searchable, stuff like that. But every one of them requires me to add a staff. Now, is there something that's different about big companies? So let's say you've got, let me take one example from my personal experience.
suppose instead of a finance and budget guy, which is what I used to be for a big bank and then a phone company, suppose they say, hey, budgets are the easiest thing to do. All right, so we'll get rid of the budget guy because it's just math and spreadsheets. We'll just have the AI do it. And then what about the forecasts? So it's not just collecting the budget.
Like I would do forecasts if we invest in this. You know, this is better if we lease it than if we buy it, that sort of thing. Well, again, again, the AI could do forecasts. So could my old job be replaced because it was just math? And the answer is, oh, you've never worked in the real world, have you? If you think there's any possibility that that job could be replaced by a computer,
You don't really know what that job was. Let me explain what that job really was. That job is about lying on behalf of your boss. It's a lying job. You can't hire an AI to lie. It just won't work out. So the boss says, choose the assumptions so that I get the laboratory I want to build.
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